Twine-pickling-cylinder attachment for binders.



No. 665,292. Patented Jan. I, l90l.

- S. B. WHITEHEAD. TWIflE PICKLING CYLINDER ATTACHMENT FOR BlNDEB S.

(Application filed Apr. 26, 1900.)

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STEPHEN B. WHITEHEAD, OF INWOOD, IOWA.

TWlNE-PlCKLlNG-CYLINDER ATTACHMENT FOR BINDERS.

SIEGIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,292, dated January 1, 1901- Application filed April 26, 1900.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, STEPHEN B. WHITE- HEAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Inwood, in the county of Lyon and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Twine-Pickling-Oylinder Attachments for Binders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in apparatus for pickling twine or so preparing the same as to prevent it from becoming destroyed by insects within the harvest field. Its primary object is to provide a device of simple construction which is effective in use. It may be readily attached to any of the binders now in use.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof, and Fig. 2 is a'longitudinal section therethrough.

Referring to said figures by numerals of reference, 1 is a casing formed of any suitable material, as sheet metal, and substantially cylindrical in form. This casing is provided on opposite sides with brackets 2 of suitable construction, whereby the device may be readily attached to a binder. Within the top of the casing, at the center thereof, is an opening 3, having an annular flange 4 projecting from the sides thereof and threaded and adapted to engage with a cap 5, which screws thereon. Suitable packing 6, of rubber or other desired material, is preferably placed about the flange and adapted to lie between the edge of the cap and the top of the casing.

Projecting from the casing, at each end of the top thereof, is a short tube 7, which extends downwardlyinto the cylinder, and eyes, as 8, are secured to the ends of the cylinder in alinement with said tube. Secured to the bottom of the cylinder, at the center thereof,

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are two or more eyes 9, which are for the purpose hereinafter described.

In operation a suitable pickling liquid is placed within the cylinder and the cap screwed tightly thereon. Twine is then passed through one of the tubes 7, and thus through the eyelets within the cylinder out through the corresponding tube 7 at the opposite end of the device. It will thus be seen that the twine will be retained at the bottom of the cylinder by means of the eyes therein and will therefore be thoroughly saturated prior to leaving the cylinder.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of my invention, but I do not limit myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a casing; of inclined tubes extending through the top of the casing near the ends thereof; eyes projecting from the inner sides of the ends of the casing in the vertical plane of the tubes; and eyes secured to the bottom of the casing.

2. The combination with a casing having an inlet thereto and a cap therefor, of inwardly-extending inclined tubes within the top of the casing at opposite ends thereof,

eyes secured to the inner walls of the ends of the casing in alinement with the tubes, eyes upon the bottom of the casing, and brackets projecting from the outer surface of the easmg.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

STEPHEN B. WHITEHEAD.

Witnesses:

CHRIS. J ENSVOLD, S. H. LARSEN. 

